Coherent and random noise attenuation via multichannel singular spectrum analysis in the randomized domain

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Chiu
Geophysics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. V261-V270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weilin Huang ◽  
Runqiu Wang ◽  
Yangkang Chen ◽  
Huijian Li ◽  
Shuwei Gan

Multichannel singular spectrum analysis (MSSA) is an effective algorithm for random noise attenuation in seismic data, which decomposes the vector space of the Hankel matrix of the noisy signal into a signal subspace and a noise subspace by truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD). However, this signal subspace actually still contains residual noise. We have derived a new formula of low-rank reduction, which is more powerful in distinguishing between signal and noise compared with the traditional TSVD. By introducing a damping factor into traditional MSSA to dampen the singular values, we have developed a new algorithm for random noise attenuation. We have named our modified MSSA as damped MSSA. The denoising performance is controlled by the damping factor, and our approach reverts to the traditional MSSA approach when the damping factor is sufficiently large. Application of the damped MSSA algorithm on synthetic and field seismic data demonstrates superior performance compared with the conventional MSSA algorithm.


Geophysics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. V69-V84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weilin Huang ◽  
Runqiu Wang ◽  
Yimin Yuan ◽  
Shuwei Gan ◽  
Yangkang Chen

Multichannel singular spectrum analysis (MSSA) is an effective algorithm for random noise attenuation; however, it cannot be used to suppress coherent noise. This limitation results from the fact that the conventional MSSA method cannot distinguish between useful signals and coherent noise in the singular spectrum. We have developed a randomization operator to disperse the energy of the coherent noise in the time-space domain. Furthermore, we have developed a novel algorithm for the extraction of useful signals, i.e., for simultaneous random and coherent noise attenuation, by introducing a randomization operator into the conventional MSSA algorithm. In this method, which we call randomized-order MSSA, the traces along the trajectory of each signal component are randomly rearranged. Two ways to extract the trajectories of different signal components are investigated. The first is based on picking the extrema of the upper envelopes, a method that is also constrained by local and global gradients. The second is based on dip scanning in local processing windows, also known as the Radon method. The proposed algorithm can be applied in 2D and 3D data sets to extract different coherent signal components or to attenuate ground roll and multiples. Different synthetic and field data examples demonstrate the successful performance of the proposed method.


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